How do I love my enemy when my enemy is a white nationalist?
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A beard isn’t just a beard I’m letting my beard grow in again, and it’s adding to the Lenten suffering since it’s getting pretty itchy. But along with the beard growth is the lingering idea that I will definitely look more “Arab” by the end of it. I think about these things because I know I live in a world where my skin color is used against me. Racism is just a fact of life in the United States and it always has been. So while I don’t grow my beard in trepidation, I do grow it with the consciousness that it definitely does make me look in a way that will attract more prejudice. I think many minorities live their lives with this sort of awareness. I did it growing up because I knew mom made food my white friends thought was weird. Or when I realized that not every kid’s mom was packing them peanut butter and jelly in pita bread. We kind of bump into our own ethnicity when we experience prejudice as a result.
How do I love my enemy when my enemy is a white nationalist?
How do I love my enemy when my enemy is a…
How do I love my enemy when my enemy is a white nationalist?
A beard isn’t just a beard I’m letting my beard grow in again, and it’s adding to the Lenten suffering since it’s getting pretty itchy. But along with the beard growth is the lingering idea that I will definitely look more “Arab” by the end of it. I think about these things because I know I live in a world where my skin color is used against me. Racism is just a fact of life in the United States and it always has been. So while I don’t grow my beard in trepidation, I do grow it with the consciousness that it definitely does make me look in a way that will attract more prejudice. I think many minorities live their lives with this sort of awareness. I did it growing up because I knew mom made food my white friends thought was weird. Or when I realized that not every kid’s mom was packing them peanut butter and jelly in pita bread. We kind of bump into our own ethnicity when we experience prejudice as a result.